W. Clement Stone Quotes
Give good thoughts (nature’s character builder) - you will be good and the world will have good thoughts for you.
Quotes to Explore
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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I would like to thank my colleagues for voting a Social Democrat prime minister and to assure them I will vote a liberal president, as well.
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Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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I don't quite have the luxury of cherry-picking - I have to see what comes my way. But I have always been picky.
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One thing that has made us so successful is that we've never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want - not what the stockholders or the VCs want.
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I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else.
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The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
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I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
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Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.
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I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.
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In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
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Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.
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As a child my grandmother used to tell us stories about the dead and the mystical.
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My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!
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Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.
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The clarinet has always been my baby. I just didn't know that for a while.
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Beowulf is not a superhero. He has a talent, very much like Clint Eastwood in 'Unforgiven.' He's very good at staying calm in the right moment, but he does bad things. It's very much about having talent in a tight spot.
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Give good thoughts (nature’s character builder) - you will be good and the world will have good thoughts for you.
